State Act

The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act.

327. Naming streets, and numbering of 3[premises].— (1) 4[The Commissioner] may, from time to time— (a) with the sanction of the corporation, determine the name by which any street shall be known; (b) cause to be put up or painted on a conspicuous part of any house at or near each end corner or entrance to every street the name of such street as so determined; 5[(c) with the sanction of the corporation 6[determine the number or sub-number by which any premises or part thereof] shall be known; 1[(d) by written notice require an owner of any premises or part thereof either to put up by means of a metal plate a number or sub-number on such premises or part thereof in such position and manner as may be specified in such notice or to signify in writing 2[* *] that such work shall be executed under the orders of the Commissioner.]] (2) No person shall without the written permission of the Commissioner or without other lawful authority destroy, remove, deface or 3[in any way injure or alter any such name, number or sub-number or allow or cause any metal plate bearing such number or sub-number to fall into disrepair or otherwise become illegible or put up or paint any name or put up any number or sub-number different from that put up or painted by order of the Commissioner.] 4[(3) 5[Where a number or sub-number is put up on any premises or part thereof under the orders of the Commissioner in accordance with clause (d) of sub-section (1), the expenses of such work shall be payable by the owner of the premises or part thereof, as the case may be]: Provided that the maximum rate of charge for such work shall be fixed by the Commissioner with the previous sanction of the 6[Corporation]. 7[Explanation.— In this section ‘premises’ does not include land which is not built upon.]